Openings that hook the reader, sentence 0

The first line of a piece of writing is a fishing hook: its job is to catch the reader and make them want the next line, and the next.

Who acts: first line, job, them, line · What happens: be, make, want, job · To what, where: fishing hook, them, next line

This is a sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first line, job, them, line), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 line	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 line	amod
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hook	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 piece	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 writing	case
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hook	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hook	det
11	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hook	compound
12	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 hook	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 job	nmod:poss
15	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catch	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 catch	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 catch	mark
18	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hook	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reader	det
20	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catch	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 catch	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 line	det
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 line	amod
27	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 next	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 next	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 next	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 line	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hook	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the first line of a piece of writing	a fishing hook		tree rules
2	is	present	line's job		catch property	tree rules
3	make	infinitive	line's job not said here	them = they		tree rules
4	want	infinitive	them = they not said here	the next line		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot line=Theme
5	job		line			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:0.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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